Johann Krenkel

Johann Krenkel (1873-1918) was an Imperial German Army officer during World War I.

Biography
Johann Krenkel was born in Bielefeld, German Empire in 1873, and he became a career army officer in the Imperial German Army. Krenkel led a squad of German troops during World War I, fighting in the Artois region of northern France during the later stages of the war. In 1918, he was killed while defending his trench from an Allied counterattack.